Shipping Rate - An Ajax-enabled Spring Web Flow Sample

This sample application demonstrates use of Spring Web Flow in combination with Ajaxian techniques. Specfically, it illustrates a wizard embedded in a zone of this page that makes Ajax calls to the server to participate in a executing flow. To complete processing, this wizard takes the details about a shipment and calls a service to get the shipping rate.

The techniques demonstrated are:

• Using a JavaScript component to submit regular forms through an AJAX request, and inserting the HTML received from the server into a DIV tag.
• Using the "_flowId" request parameter to let the view tell the web flow controller which flow needs to be started.
• Implementing a wizard using Spring Web Flow.